page_title: Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais
section_title: Significant roles
hierarchical_section_title: Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais / Significant roles
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Männer des BOPE bei einer Übung zur Geiselbefreiung. English: BOPE's military during a police raid, between the means is an Iveco Daily Español: Agentes del Bope en una incursión policial. Français&#160;: Hommes du BOPE utilisant le caveirão comme couverture. Italiano: Agenti del BOPE, durante un'incursione; tra i mezzi un Iveco Daily Polski: Funkcjonariusze BOPE w akcji. Português: Policiais Militares do BOPE e da CIP: cães em treinamento de resgate de reféns. Русский: Учения BOPE.
context_page_description: Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais or BOPE is the police tactical unit of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State in Brazil. Due to the nature of crime in favelas, BOPE units have extensive experience in urban warfare as well as progression in confined and restricted environments. It also utilizes equipment deemed more powerful than traditional civilian law enforcement.
  BOPE of PMERJ is one of the best known units of its kind among Brazil's military police organizations. Military Police of Alagoas and Santa Catarina states also call their tactical units BOPE, while the military police of the Federal District, Piauí, and Rio Grande do Sul states call their forces "Special Operations Battalion".
context_section_description: The BOPE Currently perform a number of roles, including:
  Providing additional security at special events;
  Break barricades constructed by drug dealers;
  Shoot to kill at any criminal threatening both civilian or member life;
  Exterminate drug trafficking criminal factions and all of its members;
  Extract police officers or civilians injured in confrontations and combats;
  Rescuing officers and citizens captured by criminals or endangered by gunfire;
  Serve high-risk arrest warrants;
  Hostage rescue;
  Stabilizing situations involving high-risk suicidal subjects;
  Suppress prison riots;
  Support civil police in combats of any kind;
  Providing superior assault firepower in certain situations;
  Armed patrols around the favelas;
  Special missions in swamps or mountainous terrains such as reconnaissance, planning and infiltration;
  Engage in combat serving state sovereignty;
  Crime suppression to minimum;
  Resolving high-risk situations with a minimum loss of life, injury, or property damage;
  Engage strongly armed criminal factions.
caption: BOPE officers during a training exercise.
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